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The Newsreader season three trailer. We're so back!

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Finished my Vampire Lestat Tapestry !

Here’s a video of half the progress

the idea is to use this as one side of a throw pillow w some lyrics on the other in a green color similar to the jacket in the s3 promo.

when I’m done with this I can finally work on my Armand “softest beigest throw pillow” ! !

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Cursed thought:

If the wolves Lestat killed were actually werewolves, does that mean his cloak was made of human skin for most of each month?

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Hot on the heels of my blood drip socks, I've loom knitted this 💜🖤 pair in anticipation of Interview with the Vampire season 3, using the colours and logo from the Rockstar Lestat S3 teaser.

First, I turned the logo into a pixellated, two colour, 32x30 pattern using the excellent Floss Cross site. I wanted to only have the logo on the outside ankle, so I'm proud that I remembered to move it to the opposite corner for the second sock!

In order to keep the floats short & tidy, I used three separate mini-bundles of black yarn instead of just using the ball. This meant I was juggling four strands instead of two but I got a much neater result inside.

I used my favourite Kb Sock Loom (fine gauge) set at 56 pegs. 🧶 Glendale Fibres Standard Sock in “Violet” 75% superwash merino / 25% nylon and @mothyandthesquid’s merino sock yarn in “Midnight Black” 75% merino / 25% nylon.

I knitted these toe up, with the Kitchener cast on, then knit the toe, 75 rows knit for the foot, an Eye of Partridge heel, then 10 rows of knit, 30 rows of the pattern, followed by 10 more rows of knit and finally 5 rows of 2x2 rib and a stretchy cast off.

The most impressive thing about this pair is how quickly I knitted them up! In total, this pair took me only 16 days from casting on to blocking, with the second sock only taking me FOUR DAYS! 😳 This is absolutely a new record for me, thanks to stress knitting and opportunistic infections on top of my Long Covid keeping me in bed even more than usual… but yay for one-of-a-kind Vampire Lestat socks!

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Last week to order one of my Wisesnail calendars :)

I still have a few left, if you're interested 💙

Hannibal 7

IWTV 9

Silmarillion 10

(Good Omens - sold out)

You can find all the info about ordering yours in the pinned post <:

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"All the World is Green"

-Tom Waits-

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Lestat, you must think me an idiot.

Commissioned by @savagewildnerness

I’m so happy this commission gave me the freedom to be very detailed and, well, fancy. I do love that about commissions, though it obviously depends on the client’s budget.

I want to do Palma Vecchio Armand next, but then it will be two more commissions, after which I’ll open for a few more commissions and otherwise get back to making dolls for general sale.

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So it's Halloween. Does anyone else remember that concert from that one band 30 odd years ago today, The Vampire Lestat or something? That was one bad-ass but crazy concert. I wonder what happened to that Lestat dude. He just sorta disappeared one day.

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How have I never made this connection before??

This brain fart brought to you by this ridiculously fun IWTV x Scooby Doo fic.

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loustat fanfic recs

Just wanted to make a list of some of my favorite loustat fanfics so far. I'll definitely be adding onto this list as I continue to read more.

Anything by cherhorowitz8. This person's writing style is so amazing and every single fic that has been written has had me hooked. I recommend checking out their page, but a few of my personal favs are:

like you mean it in spite of all my faults eligible once more, with feeling of bruised egos and preconceived notions

pocketusn i try to be chill girl, but honestly, i'm not it's like a sucker punch straight to my heart

lesfleursrouges the last day of summer like time stands still

anonymouswords123 none of them your true nature

canonthatdivides je t'ai dans la peau

dirtygoldensoul the saint

pasterquesix before you see me come (back) to me

vitamin_kay cheerful oblivion you sip what the devil's drinking

emblue_sparks reviens, mon coeur

introruins silk chiffon

louisredsuit his rightful home

prouvaireafterdark burning in water, drowning in flame

Post reunion fics we'll be diamond when the golden days are done by rickybobby mon by lydia_eve you are the moon that breaks the night for which i have to howl by peacefrog inertia by chinxe

Also, honorable mention to meet me at the barre by dancermk. I'm not sure what happened, but I no longer see this fic anymore and it was one of my absolute favorites.

All these fics are absolutely amazing and beautifully written in my opinion. There are more that I plan to add that I wasn't able to get around too just yet, and again as I read more I will add as well.

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IWTV fanfiction

The Vampire Detective Agency

and The Case of the Mozart Murderer (complete)

What if Lestat was not Louis's maker?

What if they first met at a crime scene in New Orleans?

What if vampire Louis is a private investigator in New Orleans and Lestat works for INTERPOL in Europe?

Without the baggage of maker/fledgling - just their past losses of daughter or lover preventing them from finding happiness, they find friendship in much the same way as a certain pair of actors did.

Then comes love - and peril ... how will they react when they discover the true identity of The Mozart Murderer and the reason for their spate of crimes across Europe?

Complete story now posted - starting here:

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Ready just in time for Halloween! 🩸🧦🧶 I had the idea for these blood drip socks a few weeks ago and I’m so pleased with how they turned out!

I’ve loom knitted loads of socks over the years but this is only my second colourwork and the first time making my own pixelated pattern. I’d forgotten how much fun colourwork is!! These just flew off my loom, and I’m pleased with the short floats inside, too.

I used the Knitting Board sock loom (fine gauge) at 56 pegs, and @mothyandthesquid’s merino sock yarns in “Midnight Black” and “Ruby”. It’s entirely knit stitches right up until the 2x2 rib at the ankle.

I’ve still got a fair bit left of both colours so it won’t be the last you’ll see of them!

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ok ok ok but the fact wwdits didn't even trend on here upon its release date is both really sad and sort of understandable bc i swear there's no hype around it at all. there's no oomf for this final season and the fact majority of us needed to illegally stream it tells you everything.

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COMPLETE!

Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)

Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive

Relationships: Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand/Daniel Molloy, Daniel Molloy & Louis de Pointe du Lac

Characters: Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Daniel Molloy, Armand (Vampire Chronicles)

Additional Tags: rockstar lestat, Mutual Pining, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Flashbacks, Drug Use, Biting, Blood Drinking, Drama, Romance, Canon-Typical Violence, Anal Sex, Jealousy, Possessive Behavior, Possessive Sex, Bottom Louis de Pointe du Lac, Top Lestat de Lioncourt, Sharing a Bed, Sharing a Room, Friends to Lovers, Post-Episode: s02e08 And That’s The End of It. There’s Nothing Else (Interview with the Vampire TV) -Snippet-

“You can’t control who you love…” I shook my head. My cigarette was running out. Lestat supplied me with another. “We’re much better at talking about other people, aren’t we?”   

“Other people seem less complicated than ourselves.” 

I was silent for a time and so was Lestat. His hand drew lazy circles into my thigh as we smoked, emptying half of a pack between us. I’d come to understand the Dark Gift as a chance to improve upon myself continually. Where humans have a single lifetime to pursue betterment, I will have centuries. I saw myself as changeable. Why couldn’t I look at Lestat and believe the same for him? Why couldn’t I extend the same grace to our relationship? 

In only a few short days, Lestat had shown me a different side of himself. Perhaps a side that had always been present, desperate to be seen, obscured by my insistence to see him solely as a monstrous thing. This quiet tenderness reminded me of my last months as a human when I’d softened to his presence in my life. How it excited and enthralled me. I thought he had called out to me and mesmerized me with a supernatural force so that I would crumble to him easily. He needed to employ no such powers to have this hold over me. 

Fear welled in my stomach. The loss of Claudia was a heavy weight in my chest. We were apt destroyers of each other, prone to entangling others in our madness. If I had never pled at his feet; if he had never wavered; if I had never spurned him; if he had never laid a finger upon us–if, if, if…

But could we be different, now?

“You think too much,” Lestat said. 

“You can’t read my thoughts.”

“I don’t need to. I know you too well. We’re old friends, aren’t we?” He pressed a kiss to my cheek. “Be with me here, Louis. In the present. Or maybe, you’d prefer a piece of the past…” 

Lestat withdrew from me, taking long strides across the room. He smiled devilishly, lifting a record from its cardboard envelope and setting it on the player. The needle scratched first. And then the music played. A clarinet and strings. The waver of yearning in Sarah Vaughan’s voice. Just friends, she sang. Lovers no more. 

“Dance with me, mon ami.”

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I sewed a Wolfkiller Cloak!

I have been a fan of Lestat's Wolfkiller Cloak for 30 years(!!) so when it made a surprise appearance in season 2 of Interview with the Vampire I just knew I would be sewing one for myself.

It looks incredible in the show, but then we also got to see more of it in better lighting during the short, behind the scenes "Episode Insider" for the episode. Essentially, this is a calf-length, blood-red velvet cape with an additional, elbow-length capelet on top, and a fur-lined hood.

But having made capes in the past, I realised that they are really impractical to wear due to limited arm mobility and having either your arms or body freeze through the openings.

So instead of sewing exactly what I saw on screen, I realised I could instead sew a swing coat + little capelet on top with fur-lined hood! And even better - make the capelet removable via hooks at the neckline so that they could be worn together or separately. This was a Eureka! moment for me. I wanted to make something that is somewhat authentic to the look of the original, but also practical to wear as an every day winter coat!

After quite a few muslins, I settled on the Charm Patterns Swing Coat (with some modified sleeves), and a self-drafted capelet (similar to my earlier cape from Claudia S1 NYE look) with a fur-lined hood. I drafted the hood pieces so that the fur lining is longer and wraps around the opening edge. This makes the fur more visible when its down around the shoulders, as in the show.

I used 5m of burgundy velvet and 0.5 m of Arctic Grey Wolf faux fur from CRS Fabrics (UK) - the fur itself was £60/m(!!) so I'm extremely pleased the show version wasn't entirely lined in fur like the book description (scroll down for more on that!). I underlined it for warmth using cotton flannel to block the wind, and found an incredible dark grey skull jacquard lining fabric at Mood Fabrics (US).

The swing coat pattern only has one button at the neck, so I made it count! I found the most perfect wolf head button on ebay and adjusted my bound buttonhole accordingly, but it really is the best statement button I could've ever asked for! The rest of the front opening is closed with enamel hooks and hidden thread bars to not distract from the clean lines when worn open.

In all, this took me about 6 weeks to sew and I am SO chuffed with how it turned out. I usually only take daytime photos for my sewing in order to best show off the details and seamlines, but for this I couldn't resist an additional nighttime shoot, too.

Even better - after I posted it to Instagram, the costume designer for the show, Carol Cutshall, not only said she loves it, but revealed a new piece of iwtv lore - they originally tried the cloak entirely lined in fur, but it was too heavy for Sam to move in!! (Which I can totally believe because mine is super heavy even with a lightweight lining!)

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Making the ✨Lioncourt Gown✨ (Part 4/4)

It's been such a fun project working on the Lioncourt Gown (aka Interview with the Vampire's Lestat de Lioncourt's theater costume -

made into a 1790s women's redingote) and I can finally say that I have finished it. It's done, and I love it. It didn't turn out exactly how I'd planned, but that's how it is with me and sewing. I admire anyone who can just stick to their original plan haha but that person is not me. Usually, when sewing I don't think too far ahead, I just do it until I hit a point where something just isn't working out and have to find a way around it. I'm also self-taught, so my workarounds may not be standard procedures when you actually know what you're doing. But I'm still really, really happy with it, and I did a little photo shoot as soon as it was done.

But anyways, here's the final part of this project.

In my last post, we left off with the still detached but finished collar/yoke and the finished bodice. I attached the yoke to the bodice, and then went on to make the final piece - the outer skirt.

For that, I essentially did the same thing I did with the bodice and the sleeves. I attached the colored satin triangles and stitched them down with the tape. Here is a picture just before I attached the tape:

This process is very time consuming and I had severely underestimated it. I did end up finishing it in a day, but it was the only thing I did that day. You have to stitch super close to the edge or the satin is going to fray and stick out and it's not a pretty look. It did end up happening in a few places, so I had to take the stitches out and redo them. But when that was done, I added red tape to the raw edges of the fabric and finished the skirt.

Then finally, it was time to attach the skirt to the bodice. For that, I gathered it with a quick basting stitch to bring it to the needed width and then had to hand stitch it in place, making sure I was attaching it only to the lining layer so the stitches wouldn't be visible from the right side.

Once that was done, it was time for the first complete try on! For one, I was really excited to see it as a basically completed project, but more importantly, I needed to know where to put the buttons. So I put on all my layers for this (shift, stays, bumroll, two petticoats, the skirt, and the bodice with the outer skirt), and realized... it was a bit smaller than anticipated. It fit, but I'd planned to make it double-breasted and the front panels didn't overlap quite enough to make two button rows possible while keeping them centered. So I ended up deciding in that moment I was only going to do one row of buttons. The original only has one row, so it was fine either way. But while on the topic of buttons, another thing: I'd mentioned in a previous post that I wasn't sure whether to add buttonholes or to fake the closure with hooks and eyes, and I decided to do neither. I was way too scared of the satin fraying if I did button holes and the whole hook and eye system is pretty annoying to do, and since I'm only really gonna wear it once or twice a year I decided to just use some red pins to pin myself into the dress for the day. This protects the satin from fraying and is less work for me. It doesn't look super professional though and while historically accurate for some dresses in the 18th century (some even used to sew themselves, or have someone sew them into their dresses), it was not used on redingotes (as far as I'm aware) for practicality reasons. Redingotes are essentially riding coats and were used primarily outdoors, so buttons was the most common way to close up these types of garments. Still, I did not want to risk ruining the fabric, so I decided to do it this way.

So once I'd figured out where to place the buttons, I sewed them into place. On a side note, I do love the way they look. They're so pretty.

I added four in the front, two on each sleeve and four in the back.

So this is it. It's done.

This was, mostly due to the color details, the most time time-consuming and frankly expensive project I've ever worked on (well, maybe except for my very first dress as I still didn't know what I was doing back then - that one took me literal months hah). But it was so worth it. It's been in my bedroom for a few days now and I smile every time I see it. I still can't believe it's in my possession.

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